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Show 1901.] BATRACHIANS AND REPTILES PROM SOMALILAND. 49 granules intermixed with large, strongly keeled, trihedral tubercles, forming about 16 very irregular longitudinal series; these tubercles oval or elliptical on the back, subcircular on the sides. Eostral quadrangular, little broader than deep, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals; 9 or 10 upper and 8 lower labials ; symphysial large, pentagonal; two pairs of chin-shields, the inner large and forming a suture behind the point of the symphysial. Ventral scales moderately large, cycloid, imbricate, smooth. Male with an angular series of prseanal pores. The tail of the type specimen is lost; the base only remains, and shows the organ to have been strongly depressed, covered with small striated scales and transverse series of subcorneal, striated and keeled tubercles. Brownish grey above; head spotted with brown ; three brown dark-edged bands across the body, bifurcating on the sides ; lower parts white. millim. Head 22 Width of head 15 Body 56 Fore limb 25 Hind limb 32 A single male specimen from Gan Lebar. 6. TARENTOLA EPHIPPIATA O'Shaughn.-Biji. 7. AGAMA VAILLANTI Blgr.-Ania. 8. AGAMA HARTMANNI Peters (clorice, Blgr.).-Ania, Gan Lebar. 9. AGAMA PHILLIPSH Blgr.-Gan Lebar. 10. EREMIAS BRENNERI Peters.-Biji. 11. MABUIA VARIA Peters.-Gan Lebar. 12. CHALCIDES OCELLATUS Forsk.-Biji. OPHIDI A. 13. ERYX THEBAICUS Eeuss.-Biji. 14. ZAMENIS RHODORHACHIS Jan.-Biji. 15. PSAMMOPHIS BISERIATUS Peters.-Gan Lebar. 16. ECHIS CARINATUS Schneid.-Gan Lebar. EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII. Fig. 1. Hemidactylus leevis, p. 48. 2. „ barodanus, p. 48. a. Side view of head; b. Chin-shields ; c. Lower view of foot. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1901, VOL. I. No. IV. 4 |